A 12 year-old French schoolgirl created a stir on Friday when she took out an unexploded shell of the 1st. World War from her school-bag to show her history teacher at a college in Etain, near Verdun. The teacher immediately made all the students leave the class-room, leaving the object on the table and alerting the mine disposal service, who evacuated the 330 students.
The explosive, a German shell of 7.7 centimeters and filled with metal shrapnel, was potentially deadly within a 1 kilometer range, according to a bomb disposal expert as quoted by the daily Le Républicain.
A farmer’s daughter, the student had found the shell near the family barn where mine-clearing squads found more shells that her father had been stocking.
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